Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
NEBRASKA.

livery.
Lincoln is q candidate for the new Baptist
university.
The Touring mill at Beatrice was damaged
by fire Saturday.
The Democrat is ogitating for a new court
house at Hastings.
Thirty residents of Kcokuk, Ia, are about
to move to Red Cloud.
The supreme court has declared the registr,
law unconstitrtional.
The old metropolitan house st Lincoln was
damaged by fire Saturday.
twenty seven condemned governmen
horses were sold at Fort Niobrara last Satur
Cay.
Schuyler is the haymarket OF the state
Over one hundred men are employed Ia III,
business.
The Hastings branch OF the Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri Valley railroad was finall,
opened on Monday.
Mrs. Herman Bettge, tried to commit
suicide with chloroform, because her husband
would speak to other women.
The thirty-frst annual meeting OF the Con
gregational churches of the s'ate will COM
mence at Lincoln Wednesday.
William Price Of Woodruff, while borini
for water, struck what is undoubtedly CA
oil. and In a pretty large quantity.
Frank Hodges, a farmer near Fullerton, wa
burned out. The loss In household effects
grain and farm buildings is $500.
Thrift fhnusaud sh9ap arwivaI ot Eromnpt
Saturday from Oregon. They VIII be fed IL
that vicinity during the coming winter.
The mill Of Black p Of, AT Beatrice, mar,
rowly escaped destrucnon by fire. Excel,
lent wo:k on the part of the fire department
saved IL.
Tom Keown OF Hay 8 prlngs, returned from
a bunting trip In the SAND hills, having killed
four deer, W antelope and small game too
numerous to mention.
a Darn belonging to J. w. Fergeson, O
Minden, burned Saturday evening, with two
Jerseys, a calf and a blooded ball, and sever.
al OF his fine greyhounds.
The wind on Wednesday blew the scaffold.
Ing over against the brick sm ke stack being
built for the new water works system at
Portsmouth. No one was working on the
same at the time.
The st. Edwards Star publ hes a duly
signed warning to the sneak tbi, # who has
the habit OF entering his neighbours corntields
and stealing corn. He is well known and may
go there once too often.
Many of the farmers in the north half Of
county say that their corn is turning
out forty and fifty bushels of good sound
corn per acre. They are improving the time
well in getting it into the crib.
Saturday afternoon the fast freight from
Chicago over the Burlington and Mis- souri ar
rived IN hastings IL three sections OF from
thirty.dve to fifty cars each, making in all a
train Of nearly $50 loaded cars.
Black Bros. generously remembered the
fire department for their successful efforts in
saving their mill from destruction. They
placed a check for 800 with Chief Heron to
be divided among The companies.
A robber attemoted to hold up a car driver
named Knapp at Omsha. He was very un-
successful. he got no money but a thrashing
rom the driver, and was also bound over to
an appearance to the district court.
Columbia township Wednesday voted &c..
900 in bonds to aid in building a bridge scross
the Loup Fork river. Tois, with $500
voted by the city OF Columbia last week for
the same purpose, will secure a permanen,
bridge.
The body Of Charles Thomas, the unfortun'
ate young man who WAS killed in the boiler
explosion at Lincoln a few days ago, was
taken to Dickson, Iowa, his old home, for In
terment. His brother accompanied the re
mains.
Last summer Mr.. Weatherspoen moved
from Detrsit, Michigan, 70 . farm a few miles
east OF Cedar Rapids. He brought with hin
on the cars . dog. Not long after their ar
rival IN Boone county the deg left his new
home, and after q few weeks WAS found or
he doorstep of his old home In Detroit.
Contractor STUNT, at Omaha, dispersed &
ang OF strikers by marching into their ranks
braLdisbing q wagon spoke which he held In
his hand. He removed their obstructions tC
work, and told those who chose 10 do so, to &c
to WORK and he others to 90 10 the ofic anC
get their pay. The ms ,rity went to work.
A travelling man named Charles E Butcher
committed suicide at Fremont q n THURSDAY
night by taking twenty-five grains OF NOR
phipe. The best medical aid WAS secured bu'
without avail. He leaves y wife who resided
with her parents at S.ward. Family troubl,
is alleged to be the cause.
Monday a birth occurred on the Pullman
sleeper 'Ormus'' rs a Unios Pacific train wal
nearing Omaha. Groans We e heard TO come
from a lower berth, and the lady pas .epger.
soon discovered that the fair occupant wa
soon to become a mother The LADY was Mrs
j. G. stillman, of Bloomington. She was re
moved TO a hotel at Columbla
Marshal MAlick, of Platrsn nth, arrested
rather good looking girl Saturday eveRina
and placed her In the cir, JAN Sbe wss founc
quartertd In q box Car In comp ~ with ar
aban ioned woman and q male o3mpanion
The girls looks indie sted that she was hardly
a At companion for the two anwor hies witt
whom she was found, ard the marsha al though
1t best to arrest her. WEI laced 10 Ill sh'
was clothed In flth, b. ne ~jailor's family
soon had her attlred H. clee agr garments
she gave her name az Maggie Warnock, ar
said she ran away from her home la Fore
City, Missouri, because he fat er mistreatec
her.